Quotes from Amy Macdonald

When I was 11 I went to New York with my mum, dad and sister. I felt like I was on a movie set the whole time and loved being over there on Independence Day.

I'm always being told I've got an old head on young shoulders, which is probably due to the way my mum and dad brought me up.

A lot of people in the music business are a bit doom and gloom, People say it's probably easier to write sad songs than it is to write happy ones, so that's maybe why. I just wanted to be a bit positive about things rather than always being negative.

To me, the term 'best of' is quite embarrassing, I think of Madonna and Bruce Springsteen and all these amazing artists. I don't really see myself in that kind of gang, unfortunately.

I've always been a fan of Bruce Springsteen.

My favourite football memory is the opening match of France '98, and unfortunately Scotland had drawn Brazil.

I have been offered so many parts in movies and I just think it's so outrageous as I've never really done acting or things like that.

I didn't have many celebrity crushes, it was mainly Rangers players! I had a thing for Giovanni Van Bronckhorst. Looking back, I really don't know why! Great player though!

On my first album some of the songs were written when I was 14 or 15 so your life experience means you change, but my style is similar.